Girl badly injured by falling bookshelves at Sapporo store

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows books scattered at a second-hand bookstore on Oct. 13, 2009, in Sapporo, where a 10-year-old girl was knocked unconscious and her 14-year-old sister also injured when some bookshelves collapsed on them.

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